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stamp collecting

British  

noun

  1. another name for philately

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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This is more humiliating than being turned away from a stamp collecting convention for being too nerdy.

From Salon • Aug. 21, 2023

But new surveillance technologies must not lead to what Van Kerkhove calls “a stamp collecting exercise”: simply identifying the hundreds of thousands of viruses in wild and captive animals.

From Science Magazine • Jan. 5, 2023

Rae’s love of stamp collecting was instilled in her as a child, thanks to her grandparents.

From The Guardian • Apr. 11, 2020

They had hobbies like stamp collecting, flower pressing, making their own ice cream.

From Slate • Mar. 28, 2020

But the boy before me says playing stick-ball, and the girl before him says stamp collecting, so when the question comes to me, I say sewing.

From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline

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